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- Title
Illegal seeds overtake India's cotton fields.
- Authors
Jayaraman, K. S.
- Abstract
The article reports on the illegal production of genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds in India. The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), India's main agricultural biotechnology regulatory body opened the door to GM products in 2002 and now allows the sale of four varieties of insect-resistant GM cotton, all of which carry Saint Louis-based Monsanto's proprietary cry1Ac gene from Bacillus thuringiensis. Failure by the government to enforce GEAC's order to destroy the crop or to punish Navbharat Seeds, the Ahmedabad, India-based company that sold the unapproved seeds, emboldened seed producers to covertly multiply and sell them.
- Subjects
AHMADABAD (India); INDIA; COTTON; TRANSGENIC plants; BACILLUS thuringiensis; SEEDS; GENETIC engineering
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2004, Vol 22, Issue 11, p1333
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt1104-1333